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CRYPT0GAM1A. FUNGI. Acaricus. 
Stem solid, spongy, dark chesnut colour, striated when old, one to three 
inches high, thick as a swan's quill. Curtain, its fragments attached to 
the edge of the pileus and to the stem. 
This is an elegant species ; the colour of the pileus has furnished its name, 
although strictly speaking, it is too bright to be called a fawn colour. 
Major Velley. 
(Fawn-coloured Mealy Agaric. E.) Ag. fauve. Bull. Pine planta¬ 
tions on Claverton Down, near Bath. Major Velley. 
*Ag. lanugino'sus. Gills brown buff, narrow : pileus nut brown, 
convex, scurfy : stem nut brown, scored. 
Bull. 370. 
Gills loose, brown buff, narrow, in pairs. 
Pileus full nut brown, convex, rough and scurfy, most so when young so as 
to appear almost hispid; with age turning up; one to one inch and a 
half over. 
Stem solid, nearly the colour of the pileus, one and a half inch high, thick 
as a raven quill. 
Possibly only a variety of Ag. hinnuleus. 
(Brown Shaggy Agaric. E.) Ag. lanuginosus. Bull. In Lord Aylesford’s 
park at Packington. Autumn. 
( 5 ) Gills yellow. 
*AG. lu'teus. (Bolt.) Gills yellow, numerous, uniform: pileus yellow 
conical, tufted : stem tapering upwards. 
Bolt. 50—Sowerby 2. the left hand figures. 
Gills loose, thin, tender, delicate. 
Pileus a blunt cone, bearing the remains of its wrapper on its surface, in 
form of little, soft, cottony tufts; edge waved, scolloped, scored when 
old; one and a half inch from the edge to the top. 
Stem solid, yellow, tapering upwards, two and a half inches high, quarter 
of an inch diameter at the ring, which is permanent. Bolton. 
(Tufted Yellow Agaric. E.) Ag. cepwstipes. Sowerby. Amongst the 
bark in a pine stove. Aug. 
Var. 2. Colour of the whole plant a chalky white. 
Sowerby 2— Bull. 374. 
The general external appearances have induced Sowerby to consider 
this as a variety of the Ag. luteus, but though it stands here in conformity 
to his opinion, I think it must be a distinct plant, and on account of the 
different colour of the Gills I have entered it more fully in its proper 
place. See Ag. cretaceus, p. 273. 
Ag. minu'tulus. (Schaeff.) Gills yellowish, few uniform: pileus 
brown yellow, scored, nearly cylindrical: stem white. 
Schazjf. 308. 
Gills loose, light brown yellow. 
Pileus bell-shaped, one-tenth of an inch high, scored, brown, yellow. 
Stem solid, white, or brownish, cylindrical, rather bent, very slender, half 
to one inch high. 
In patches on the ground, but the plants grow singly. In that and in its 
general aspect, it is extremely like Var. 2 of Ag. turbinatus ; which has 
